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Two phenomena follow Prime Minister Justin Trudeau everywhere these days — his own monumental celebrity and anger at the $10.5-million settlement paid to Omar Khadr. Trudeau is now so instantly recognized that he’s featured on a new episode of The Windsors, a brutally funny British comedy show about the Royal Family. The Trudeau character barely […]

The Calgary Stampede is looking a little less political this year. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won’t make it to the 2017 Stampede, his office said Tuesday. “Unfortunately, due to scheduling constraints, he will not be attending this year,” press secretary Cameron Ahmad said in an email. Trudeau’s absence is bound to be noted just days […]

In the lead-up to Canada Day this weekend, some indigenous Canadians have been saying that if we celebrate Canada 150, we’re celebrating colonialism. Well, OK, but then according to that line of thought, no country in the world could celebrate its special day because there isn’t a single nation whose history is unblemished. Britain? Talk […]

Albertans appear to be siding with Prime Minister Stephen Harper in a recent war of words with Premier Rachel Notley, according to an exclusive poll for the Herald. The Mainstreet Research survey shows half of Albertans side with Harper in the high-profile dispute that made headlines this month, while 36 per cent support Notley. During […]

The provincial New Democrats contacted the federal Conservatives to say they didn’t want a campaign fight, after Prime Minister Stephen Harper called them a “disaster” in early August. That fascinating fact emerged Wednesday during an interview with a senior aide to Premier Rachel Notley. He called to say the government does have an evolving plan, […]

Canada's annual heat-trapping greenhouse gases continue to level off or decline in most sectors of the economy, outside of Alberta's oilpatch, says the latest annual inventory report submitted by the Harper government to the United Nations.

Theatre critics have (rightly or wrongly) been accused of sticking knives where the knifee can’t possibly defend themselves, so who’s to begrudge a playwright for turning the tables on the sharp edge of the blade for once? That’s the scenario behind playwright Ken Ludwig’s The Game’s Afoot, Vertigo’s holiday offering that’s played just as often […]

EDMONTON — Just before Lt.-Gov. Donald Ethell started speaking, oil prices finished another day of falling. And the throne speech he delivered was a cautious thing, crafted by a government sharply aware of looming trouble. It contains no seasonal gifts. Alberta can’t afford bling, and many voters are sick of new ideas that come out of nowhere, […]

The 'historic' commitment to address greenhouse gases by the world's two largest emitters is vital to any progress on climate change but even if the United States and China adhere to the agreement signed in Beijing, there are plenty of road blocks on the path ahead.

As Prime Minister Stephen Harper embarks on his visit to China, a Calgary couple is urging him to help free their daughter who has been imprisoned in the Asian country since March. Yinghua Chen, 40, is being held in a Chinese prison for practising the Falun Gong religious movement, according to her mother Jinling Huang, who believes her daughter’s life is in danger.

“It’s as per normal here — no barricades, no armed escorts,” says Capt. Steven Zivkow as he stands Thursday morning at the entrance to Calgary’s Mewata Armoury. “We don’t hide in buildings because someone’s causing problems.” What’s not per normal on this sunny morning is the growing collection of flower bouquets on the ground before us, and, a stone’s throw away, the Canadian flag that Zivkow just lowered to fly at half-mast.

Calgary MP Michelle Rempel was sitting inside a Conservative caucus meeting on Parliament Hill on Wednesday morning when gunshots cracked through the air. Startled, Rempel peered outside and spotted a gunman engaged in a firefight with security and RCMP in the normally tranquil hallways.

The deadly outrage on Parliament Hill will change this country, not just psychologically but in other profound ways. It’s now a bit harder to be Canadian — harder to trust, harder to believe in blanket presumption of innocence, harder to enjoy public ceremonies like Remembrance Day.

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